Robert Burton

Dr. Rob Burton is a visual artist, critical thinker and academic who explores themes of memory, loss and transformation through mixed media, fabric and printmaking that often utilise found objects integrated with innovations in analogue techniques and digital technologies. His works capture an essence of memory coalescing with imagination in the nostalgia of memory and longing often portraying people, place and spaces in textual textile narratives. He graduated in Fashion and Textiles at Liverpool Polytechnic in 1987 before completing his Master’s degree in Textile Design in 1989. Rob has recently been awarded a Phd for his practice-based textile art investigation ‘An Exploration of Trace, memory and Post Memory through Making, Meaning and Materiality’. Rob has recently exhibited internationally in group exhibitions, biennials and triennials in the USA, Eastern Europe and the UK. Artworks are currently being shown in exhibitions curated by the Argentine Centre for textile Arts and in the ‘Per Filo E Per Segno’ exhibition at the Fabbrica della Ruota, Biella, Italy.

Since 2014 Rob has regularly collaborated with international screendance company WECreate who specialise in site-specific interdisciplinary works inspired by their share...

Education
2018 2021 Teesside University
PhD Doctorate qualification
Title: An Exploration of Trace, Memory and Post Memory through Making, Meaning and Materiality
1993 1995 Stockport College
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
Manchester University Validation Pass
1987 1989 Birmingham Polytechnic
MA Textile Design. Pass
1984 1987 Liverpool Polytechnic
BA hons Fashion/Textile Design
CNAA First Class Honours
1983 1984 Batley and Dewsbury Technical and Art College
Foundation Course in Art and Design.

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND PUBLICATIONS

TIME: THE PASSAGE OF TIME AND CYCLES OF LIFE
Cista Arts
1st - 30th November 2024
Artworks selected: 'POWERFUL WHISPERS' and 'A SUBLIME LIMINALITY BETWEEN MEMORY AND OBJECTS'

COLOUR
Open Gallery,
18 Rawson Street,
Halifax,
HX1 1NH
Wednesday 16th October to Saturday 2nd November 2024.
Artworks exhibited: ‘GOTHIC ROMANCE: A PREQUEL' and 'REFLECTIONS ON THE BEAUTY OF LIFE’

AUTUMN EXHIBITION
Badger in the Wall Gallery
Home Barn
Church Avenue
Clapham
North Yorkshire
LA2 8EQ
26th September to 2nd November 2024
Artwork exhibited: Nostalgia

THE NATURE OF HERESY: KNIGHT HOSPITALERS, FRANCISCANS, CATHARS, HOLY WOMEN AND MYSTICS IN CREATIVE ENCOUNTERS
In 2022 and 2023, the Humanities Research Centre ran the "Creative Encounters" project supported by the Enhancing Research Culture Fund. One branch of this project was Visual Talking Points, whose goal was to capture something of the research in Arts and Humanities at York in a form that would lead to conversations.
The Humanities Research Centre
York University
Berrick Saul Building,
Harewood Way,
Heslington,
York YO10 5DD
20th March 2024 - work permanently on display in York University
Artwork purchased for York University Collection.

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